Background
Kenneth W. Mack grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from high school in 1982.
(Representing the Race tells the story of African American...)
Representing the Race tells the story of African American lawyers who, during the era of segregation, confronted a tension between their racial and professional identities. Their untold stories pose the unsettling question: What, ultimately, does it mean to represent a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674416953/?tag=2022091-20
historian professor Executive Editor master
Kenneth W. Mack grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from high school in 1982.
Princeton University. Harvard Law School; Harvard University.
He is the author of, and co-editor of The New Black: What Has Changed--and What Has Not--With Race in America (2012). Education and Early He enrolled at Drexel University, where he received his Bachelor of Surgery in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He then worked as an electrical engineer for Bell Laboratories, where he did Integrated circuit design.
He left Bell Labs to enroll at Harvard Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1991.
Mack clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New New York After clerking, he worked in the Washington, District of Columbia office of Covington & Burling.
In 1994, Mack left the practice of law to enter graduate school at Princeton University, where he received a Master"s degree in 1996, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2005, both in history. In 1999, Mack received an appointment as the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School.
The following year he joined the Harvard law faculty as a professor
Mack"s teaching and scholarship have focused on the legal and constitutional history of American race relations. He has written and lectured widely in these areas. His work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Journal of American History, Law and History Review, and other scholarly outlets.
He has also written opinion pieces for TIME, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Root, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and other popular media.
He has appeared on Charlie Rose and the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, and has been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including Cable News Network, Public Broadcasting Service Frontline, Anderson Cooper 360, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2007, he was awarded the Alphonse Fletcher, Senior
Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service by Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.
(Representing the Race tells the story of African American...)